[projectaon] Re: Outstanding Errata Sprint (Week 6)
- From: "David Davis" <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:42:03 +0100
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From: Jonathan Blake
The real question is whether or not Grand Weaponmastery has a bonus of
3 or 5.
OK. Well, for internal consistency in the fictional world of Magnamund, it
*ought* to be +5.
However it's not! It's +3! It's always been +3! In every edition of the
Game Rules of every Grand Master and New Order book. There's no real
arguing with that!
I tend to suspect this is due to Dever dropping the ball and making a
cut-and-paste on his wordprocessor, without remembering about the Mentora
bonus.
But I have no evidence for this at all,
and contra (circumstantial) evidence is that Deliverance also drops the
(extremely useful) +1EP per section.
I can't see there's any real way to argue that Grand Weaponmastery's Bow
bonus should be +5 without also arguing that Deliverance should also include
+1EP per section.
And I haven't seen anyone arguing that yet! (hah, am I tempting fate?! lol)
The thing which made me suspect that the +3 in the Game Rules was definately
a cut-and-paste error is because I kept finding +5 in actual numbered
sections.
I thought this was consistent throughout the books and it was the rules that
were the exception.
But meticulous grepping have shown this not to be the case. I was wrong in
my cursory analysis.
It is more plausible that these +5's are ad hoc. Reasons:
1. They are sometimes +4!
2. They are not stated as "Remember to add..."
3. In several instances they involve spells like 'Flameshaft' being used.
Ad hoc bonuses for a particular discipline are a regular occurance
throughout all the books.
For instance I can remember Healing giving you a complete restoration of EPs
on the sea voyage to Port Bax in Book 2,
and Hunting regularly providing a CS bonus (or preventing CS loss) for the
duration of a combat.
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